Former CIA agent says Osama died own death in 2006: Voice of Russia

Former CIA agent says Osama died own death in 2006: Voice of Russia

Osama bin Laden died his own death some five years before the night of May 1, when US commandoes reported that they had killed the “number one terrorist”. This sensational announcement was made in an interview that a former CIA agent gave to Russia’s Channel 1 television. He insists that he personally knew bin Laden and three of his guards who were there when Osama died on the 26th of June 2006.

Chechen national Berkahn Yasar lives in Turkey and fears that the CIA is trying to get rid of him for knowing the truth about bin Laden’s death, and only public awareness can save him. Turkish special forces have given him protection and armed him, but an interview with Russian media will provide extra help, Yasar believes.

He met bin Laden in Chechnya in September 1992, where Yasar came to work for Radio Liberty under the CIA alias Abu Bakar. This is also when he met bin Laden’s three Chechen guards.

"Sahmi, Ayub and Mahmoud. They were with him till the end. I remember that date perfectly well, with its three sixes – the 26th of the sixth month of 2006. These people, plus two from London and two from America – eight in total – saw him dead."

Berkahn Yasar also says that bin Laden was very ill before he died and lost a lot of weight, and that the three Chechens bathed and buried bin Laden’s body in accordance with the latter’s wishes.

The former CIA operative blames himself for the fact that bin Laden’s Chechen guards are probably dead by now. He says that CIA special services tapped his phone after he first announced the date of the death, without naming any names, at a Washington conference in November 2008. Precisely after this, the Chechen men disappeared, with Sahmi being the last one that Berkahn saw. He says that Sahmi was kidnapped by US forces a few days before bin Laden was declared dead and evidently, it was he who revealed the location of bin Laden’s grave in the mountains on the Pakistani-Afghan border. In any case, Sahmi’s last call came from Pakistan.

Oriental Studies Expert from the Institute of Strategic Assessments and Analysis Sergei Demidenko comments:

"I have no issue believing that bin Laden died his own death. Actually, back in 2007, prominent Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto insisted that bin Laden was dead. We should talk about the big picture in any case: what political consequences can bin Laden’s death have for the world and for the overall geopolitical situation in the Middle East."

The expert reminds that all special services around the world are playing their own game, frequently manipulating information, and a well-executed show featuring US commandoes killing the “number one terrorist” fits into that nicely.